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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Sat May 19, 2018, 05:39 PM May 2018

Call Them by Their Names - They must not get away with this bias

The presumption of innocence is supposed to protect those accused of a crime, in law and in the press. In corporate media, that rule also seems to apply to white people who report people of color to the police for doing innocuous things. As FAIR found, their identities are far more closely protected than those of people falsely targeted for “suspicious” behavior.

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/05/19/names-racial-bias/

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Call Them by Their Names - They must not get away with this bias (Original Post) egbertowillies May 2018 OP
Interesting take on this gollygee May 2018 #1
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